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Human Desire **** (1954, Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan) – Classic Movie Review 2,599

Fritz Lang’s moody 1954 thriller film noir Human Desire is a follow-up to his 1953 success The Big Heat, and again stars both Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame.  Director Fritz Lang’s moody 1954 thriller film […]

Jun, 14

The Iron Horse ***** (1924, George O’Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull) – Classic Movie Review 2503

This splendid 1924 classic silent Western from the Fox Film Company and the already expert young director John Ford virtually invented the vocabulary of the genre. The characters’ lives are set against the background of […]

May, 20

The Titfield Thunderbolt ***** (1953, Stanley Holloway, George Relph, Naunton Wayne, John Gregson) – Classic Movie Review 1640

  English villagers take direct action when their rail line faces heartless government closure by running it themselves. Charles Crichton’s 1953 Ealing Studios comedy gem The Titfield Thunderbolt glories in the antique values of the […]

Sep, 06

Jesse James **** (1939, Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott, Brian Donlevy) – Classic Movie Review 1063

Director Henry King’s 1939 Western is marvellous vintage action entertainment with a provocative central idea of the outlaws being dubiously reinvented as heroes, just like in Robin Hood or Bonnie and Clyde. That’s how the […]

Apr, 06

Johnny Guitar ****½ (1954, Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady) – Classic Film Review 378

Joan Crawford stars in Johnny Guitar as the strong-willed, gun-toting saloon queen called Vienna in her first Western since 1928’s The Law of the Range. Nicholas Ray’s 1954 camp, kitsch Western is irresistibly strange, indeed quite outlandish, and […]

Nov, 07

Blazing Saddles ***** (1974, Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Alex Karras, David Huddleston, John Hillerman, Dom DeLuise, Mel Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 215

Anything goes in Mel Brooks’s hilarious 1974 Western spoof comedy classic film Blazing Saddles. The residents of the little Western town of Rock Ridge find themselves the pathetic victims of its corrupt political boss, the […]

Sep, 03

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